Walter Tarnopolsky
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Justice Walter Surma Tarnopolsky (1932 – 15 September, 1993) was a Canadian judge, legal scholar, and pioneer in the development of human rights law and civil liberties in Canada.
He was born in the farming community of Gronlid, Saskatchewan to parents of Ukrainian descent. He studied law at University of Saskatchewan, and later Columbia University as well as the London School of Economics. For a number of years afterwards he taught law at the University of Saskatchewan, and later went over to the University of Windsor as dean of the faculty of law. From 1977 to 1983 he was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and in 1985, he was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal.
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